2. DEFINITION Progressive Movement – People who questioned the dominance of corporations in society and tried to restore economic opportunities and correct injustices in American life. Who were the big name Progressives? Teddy Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson FDR Ida Tarbell Robert Lafollette

3. 4 Goals 1. Protecting social welfare 2. Promoting moral improvement 3. Creating economic reform 4. Fostering efficiency

4. Protecting Social Welfare Soften harsh conditions of industrialization Settlement houses – community centers YMCA founded – Libraries, pools, handball courts, classes Salvation Army – Soup kitchens, slum brigades

5. Promoting Moral Improvement Women’s Christian Temperance Union – 245,000 members – largest women’s group – Open kindergartens, visited inmates, worked for suffrage Anti-Saloon League – Tension with immigrants – cashed checks and served meals

6. Creating Economic Reform Progressivists – change the country’s economic system to be more fair Muckrakers – journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business Ida Tarbell – “History of the Standard Oil Company” – cut throat methods

7. Fostering Efficiency Scientific principles to make society and workplace more efficient Henry Ford 8 hours $5 a day – but earned it

8. Cleaning Up Government Local Reform Mayors – progressive reforms without changing organization of government Get rid of corrupt owners of utilities Held meetings for citizens to voice concern

9. Cleaning Up Government State Reform governors – regulate big business Robert La Follette – Wisconsin – drive big business out of politics Main target railroads

10. Protecting Kids National Child Labor Committee Investigators to gather evidence RESULT Nearly every state banned child labor

11. Women’s Suffrage Led by Susan B. Anthony 19 th Amendment 1920 72 years after they began fighting for it